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MSNBC host Pleasure Reid accused the Republican Get together of racism on Monday over a meme the GOP Twitter account shared celebrating Presidents’ Day.
The meme portrayed a collage of Republican presidents with the message, “Glad Presidents’ Day to such nice US presidents.” President Biden was pictured as properly with the irreverent caption, “Not you.”
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Reid expressed outrage on Twitter over the tweet trolling President Biden and celebrating Republican presidents.
The MSNBC host took cues from Democrat strategist Christine Pelosi, who blasted the meme for “whiting out” President Obama and referred to as it an instance of “anti-CRT schooling.”
ATLANTA, GA – NOVEMBER 02: Former US President Barack Obama addresses the group in help of Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams
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“Disappearing the primary Black president whereas whitewashing Richard Nixon and disrespecting the person who served as the primary Black president’s VP, who’s now president. Notable as this celebration writes schooling mandates telling your youngsters’ academics what they’re allowed to show,” Reid wrote.
She wasn’t the one one at MSNBC outraged by the meme. Frequent MSNBC visitor Elie Mystal tweeted, “They put Nixon there POSITIVELY, however not Biden. And, after all, the @GOP would love you to assume that Barack Obama by no means existed in any respect.”
Sarcastically, the Democrats Twitter account posted a Glad Presidents’ Day meme the place additionally they overlooked the primary Black president.
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Reid and Mystal have confronted blowback for current feedback about race.
Final week on Reid’s present the “ReidOut,” Elie Mystal attacked America as a rustic that “hates black folks.”
After the Tremendous Bowl, the Reid herself claimed the NFL had tried to “sanitize Blackness.”